The Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV), the Sage Grouse Initiative (SGI), and Pheasants Forever, Inc. are pleased to announce that Seth Gallagher has been hired as Field Capacity and Delivery Coordinator.

Sage Grouse Initiative partner Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust just completed another significant conservation easement, working with landowner Maggie Miller, and protecting important habitat for sage grouse and many other species.

New research in Wyoming’s Upper Green River Basin shows that winter range, stopover areas and migration corridors used by mule deer overlap significantly with core sage grouse habitat.

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell weathers rain and wind to see landscape-level restoration for sage grouse near Lakeview, Oregon –featuring Sage Grouse Initiative and Bureau of Land Management and local ranchers.

Oregon Public Radio reports on U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell’s upcoming visit tomorrow to Lakeview where she will see what makes the Sage Grouse Initiative tick— ranchers, agencies and partners all coming together to tackle invasive juniper with impressive results.

“We’ve had a good little crop of sage chickens (grouse) for years and years,” says Nottingham, a third-generation rancher. “No one realized we had them. I figured it might not be a bad idea to hang onto them and take care of them.”

New sage grouse study reveals a strong link between wet sites (essential summer habitat for sage grouse to raise their broods) and sage grouse leks, and in turn, private lands.

A roundup of this week’s news for the Sage Grouse Initiative–in California, Idaho, Utah, and in the State of the Birds.